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I actually prefer the dead mice to the ones I am hearing in my bedroom walls at night. At least the dead ones are quiet!

IL: I trim our cats' front claws every 2 weeks. My older cat is pretty easy, but my DH has to help with the younger cat. He holds him by the scruff...

Yes, I was thinking that Rogar is probably the least nasty person on the Forum, or at least a top contender for the title.

If you find one who doesn't require masks please let me know. I have not found one in NH or VT and in MA the state still has a medical mask mandate.

Here you are required to see the doc to have them as primary. Did a teledoc appointment during covid.

A rapid-fire random word generator...

I sucker into a giant tub of baby spinach because it was on sale and I had to use it up. The experiment was tofu saag over rice, which turned out...

I understand now. I give some money to charities through the year, but it's not organized and gets spread around smaller amounts to several causes. ...

I wish to give to charity. This method maximizes the dollars that go there. sure, it does nothing for my own pocketbook and that is fine. And as...

Today I qued up Joe Rogan’s 3 hour interview with Jordan Peterson from 2 days ago. Good Lord can Peterson talk. I think the only podcaster who beats...

I'm going to ask my accountant about this when he helps with taxes, but I'm not too sure I understand. When money goes from the IRA to a charity,...

I am pretty sure you the owner of IRA whether you donated or inherited have to be 70.5 to make a QCD. It does not appear the age of the individual...

I watched Louis C K’s comedy special at Madison Square Garden last night. After thanking people for coming, his opening joke was sympathizing with...

Good question! I have no idea.

Okay---I was watching some youtube videos about Lee Oswalds weapon of choice---the venerable 6.5 Carcano , first introduced in 1891. But the one...

All this makes me wonder, I still have about $1500 in an IRA I inherited from my father. I've been dutifully taking the required distribution every...

I doubt this. I see drugs advertised for all sorts of nonlethal conditions from psoriasis to heartburn to restless leg syndrome.

Okay---I hate to interrupt, but this just was posted on lost & found pets, a few minutes ago. Down by Table Rock Lake, at a river bridge, a cat is...

As market researchers, the people in my industry have very strict codes of conduct with regard to reporting adverse events that we hear about during...

Burrito 'em in a towel. It works for the handlers at Tiny Kittens, anyway. A towel over the cat's head seems to be calming,as well. And good...

If I cannot do it, I have my husband come in and hold their head while I hold them tight and trim all the nails. Works for us. Nails grow so fast. ...

Sounds good. I think I'd enjoy reading that book. I'm reading The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Very provocative and comprehensive.

Thanks, guys, I have original, and the primary is in a tiny office with one other person so need to change offices. The othopedic is a giant...

I have a Medicare "advantage" plan and all it took to change the primary care doctor was a phone call to their member services as long as the doctor...

yes! Beneficiary IRA! Ugh.

I have to pay a tax when I take it out. I don’t have to pay “penalty “but I have to pay tax. I’m trying to avoid the government getting its pound of...

Oh God yes, I got a beneficiary IRA and it was complex!!! BUT, I will be dead when my IRA leftovers are distributed. In our case, all that is left...

Is your doctor an independent or a member of a group? Ours is a member of a big group and we just need to ut a new doctor in the same group. They...

Against the Grain about the move to agriculture and sedentarism (as opposed to nomadism)

So can't you take it out without penalty at 59 1/2? What keeps you from taking it out and then giving it to charity?

Science, being a human endeavor, is imperfect. The following is a long list of "miracle drugs" that have been withdrawn from market: ...

oh, I know, you are right, I just like to bitch and moan. Let me have my whine! Haha

Okay---Aways rember: FCSP&G. Yup. Food, Comfort, Security, Prestige, and Graaaaandkids! Do that,and get piles of insurance so you'll be totally...

But you have already received all kinds of tax benefits from the IRA. When is the govt supposed to get to take out the taxes, if not when you take...

I actually was going to review insurance coverage this year, but decided not to since I hear it’s going up all over anyway. But we do not insure...

Okay---As soon as you get that done, you prolly should sit down and review all of your insurance coverage. You've GOT rto have total insurance...

Unfortunately, the high priests of The Science have caused great distrust by their past fkery. There may be definitive answers but the mouthpieces...

oh please, Roger doesn’t know how to be “nasty.” Sure, there were limitations on funerals as there were limitations on MANY human activities....

And then, when we were meeting with our attorney to update our will and trust this week, she went into lots of blah blah blah about IRAs, and how...

I'm drawn to pure escapism lately--urban fantasy, wherein all looks perfectly normal--on the surface.

Haha. Glad to help! Can’t wait to hear from you after you’ve finished it.

Except, there is.

It is something like 9 degrees outside and snow-globey so watching things germinate under lights is keeping my spirits high. Hope.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kinsolver. Told from the vantage of a boy growing up in Appalachia and all the woes therein. Good read so far...

hadd to call her inside.

The view from that room is lovely, too.

Okay----I am just sitting here(when I have more important things to do), reading the complete collected works of Poe. It helps that it is VERY...

Okay----here's picture of summa my authentic, early-21st century pendant light fixtures, salvaged from an actual lirrrrrarrry. The picture is...

Today I used Tradd’s screen name here as a way to memorize a botanical name. I’ve had the hardest time remembering “Tradescantia” or Spiderwort. ...

Indeed. The most recent statistic I read on this is that roughly 7% of Americans are CURRENTLY suffering long covid. I personally have a good...

I decided that I needed to adjust my budget to reflect the reality of inflation. I no longer can eat what I want and only spend 200/month on...

One of our hospitals had to turn part of its parking garage into rooms because they ran out of rooms to put the people sick with Covid. Luckily it...

So, as I recall the discussion, you said bodies were piling up in semis because funeral homes were on a partial lockdown. What seems to be the case...

Been there a few times. I mostly remember the bourbon, blues and barbecue.

We bought one of those propeller type fans for our sun room in Hermann. I like the looks of it.

As for bodies piling up and needing outside coolers, Seattle is having trouble with fentanyl deaths. ...

I found two on our kitchen floor years ago that our cats killed. Looked like a crime scene for sure.